Letting Others Down: Living with Lupus
I’m overly conscientious. Some might think this is a good trait, particularly when they happen to be on the receiving end of my hyper-conscientiousness. I…
Letting Others Down: Living with Lupus
I’m overly conscientious. Some might think this is a good trait, particularly when they happen to be on the receiving end of my hyper-conscientiousness. I…
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The Low Back Pain Treatments Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About
If you’ve been feeling like your doctor visits aren’t doing much to help your low back pain, there’s now some research to back you up….
Island of Depression
Note to readers– I wrote this post in November of 2014. It has been sitting in a file labeled “Blogs Ready to Post” for almost…
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Letting People In
When someone is in pain, their whole family is impacted. I was reminded of this truth recently as visitors approached my booth at the Los Angeles…
Encouragement for Pain Sufferers
…Where seldom is heard a discouraging word by Dee Emmerson, TCC Writer The old ballad, “Home, Home on the Range” paints a picture of buffalo,…
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Where Chronic Pain Hurts the Most
As a doctor who sees firsthand the damage that chronic pain creates in people’s lives, I believe improving how we treat pain is the single…
Medical Complications: Nonexistent or Unreported?
This is a cautionary tale about rare medical complications. As many people who follow my blog posts know, I had spinal surgery in mid-December. After…
Automatic, and Often Negative Thoughts and Pain
Kevin hurts all the time since his accident. After learning how thoughts become automatic, he’s noticing that his pain gets worse with certain ways of thinking. Because…
It’s the Little Things
This morning I went for a walk around my neighborhood. In my younger and pre-lupus days, I was a runner. Post-lupus diagnosis, I became a…